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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:58:27 +0300
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Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Added whitespace handling for
 $KEY_CONFIG variable in easy-rsa/2.0/vars
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To: Gert Doering <gert@...1296...>
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> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:07:00AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> POSIX mandates $() so any posix shell will support it.  The issue is
>> with non-POSIX shells, if you do want to support them (e.g. Solaris's
>> /bin/sh).
> I'd rather not go down that rat-hole.  Even Solaris has POSIX-compliant
> shells today (ISTR that there is /bin/ksh).
>
> gert
Perhaps this is simply a documentation issue:

"Please use a POSIX-compliant shell (e.g. dash) with easy-rsa or you may
get unexpected results. For example, /bin/sh on Solaris is not
compliant, but you can use /bin/ksh instead."

What do you think?

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Samuli Sepp=E4nen
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OpenVPN Technologies, Inc

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